Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements : the Methods and Materials of Their ConstructionJohn Wiley & Sons, 1900 - 532 páginas |
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... mile long have been discovered . This is sup- posed to be a portion of a road built by Pharaoh for the purpose of ... miles of roads . The Appian Way was built by Appius Claudius about 300 B.C. , and the Flaminian Way some years later ...
... mile long have been discovered . This is sup- posed to be a portion of a road built by Pharaoh for the purpose of ... miles of roads . The Appian Way was built by Appius Claudius about 300 B.C. , and the Flaminian Way some years later ...
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... miles of this pave- ment , and 12,238 square yards of wood , in the city . This would indicate that wood , as first laid , was discontinued , and was not used again till laid in its improved form . Concrete was first used in London as a ...
... miles of this pave- ment , and 12,238 square yards of wood , in the city . This would indicate that wood , as first laid , was discontinued , and was not used again till laid in its improved form . Concrete was first used in London as a ...
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... miles of pavements , of which 93 per cent was cobble , 6 per cent granite , and 23 per cent asphalt . The granite , however , was not the present - shaped blocks , but prac- tically like Belgian . In that year a special commission of ...
... miles of pavements , of which 93 per cent was cobble , 6 per cent granite , and 23 per cent asphalt . The granite , however , was not the present - shaped blocks , but prac- tically like Belgian . In that year a special commission of ...
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... miles of actual pavement was laid , but of what material the reports do not state . San Francisco . In the big fire that occurred in San Francisco in 1850 , many planked streets were set on fire and consumed . Roads constructed for ...
... miles of actual pavement was laid , but of what material the reports do not state . San Francisco . In the big fire that occurred in San Francisco in 1850 , many planked streets were set on fire and consumed . Roads constructed for ...
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... on account of its great transverse strength . It is also very evenly bedded , so that its surface is smooth , making it espe- cially desirable for sidewalks . This formation extends about 100 miles in New York from STONE . 29.
... on account of its great transverse strength . It is also very evenly bedded , so that its surface is smooth , making it espe- cially desirable for sidewalks . This formation extends about 100 miles in New York from STONE . 29.
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Página 425 - ... prescribe. In the case of neglect of any corporation to make these pavements or repairs after the expiration of thirty days' notice to do so, the local authorities may make same at the expense of such corporation.•' The street-car companies, however, have not always lived up to this requirement, and it was stated in a paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers in December, 1896, that bills aggregating more than $700,000 had accumulated against surface railways on Manhattan Island...